I used content aware on a bag on the forground of a picture. Worked ok, but left an outline. I got rid of that ok with healing and clone.

But some wirse in sky, it's leaving an outline that is no better than the wires themselves. any tips? thanks.

CS5

In my experience you get an outline when

a) the selection is not large enough, and/or

b) the feathering value is too small.

I get rid of such outlines by

a) increasing the selection by let's say 5 pixels (>Selection >Modify >Enlarge) but the amount is dependant on how big your selection is in relation to the image, and I migh tincrease the selection by 10 pixels if necessary;

b) increase feathering to maybe 5 pixels.

You have to play around with these values a bit. These are not hard rules; every image is different. With time you will know intuitively which values to choose.

But sometimes you can't avoid to clean up with the clone tool afterward.

Chris: with spot healing you dont get a selection do you? I don't see running ants. When I do edit fill, content is greyed out.

Web, so you disagree with Noel, he says feathering 0.

I don`t disagree with Noel because the feathering depends on the image content, i.e. the surrounding of the area of content-aware fill.

But often I find that with feathering at 0 you see an edge between the filled area and its surrounding. If you do content aware fill with wires going through a fairly uniform sky, feathering 0 might give acceptable results. But if you had - let`s say - a picture of a beach and on the beach is a piece of ugly flotsam, you would probably need more feathering to blend the filled-in part with its surroundings.

As I said there are no hard and fast rules; experiment with it. Every picture is different.

Well, you can call the clone / heal tool content aware but this term refers to "content aware fill" in >Edit >Fill >Content aware.

You can use any selection tool for making the selection for content aware fill, the lasso, quick selection tool, magic wand. You use the selection tool that's best for the purpose. After the selection has been made, you fine-tune it for size, feather, etc.

Station, selecting is the most tedious thing for me in Photoshop. So it would be amazing if you could just drag your brush over a wire and it's then perfectly selected. I imagine they are working on that for a future edition.

WEb, I'm 10 versions into PHotoshop. I just get rusty. So once you select feathering option is over? you do need to select feathering at that moment?

Anyway, it turns out I was being over precise, you can/ should do content aware fast, and selection does not have to be precise at all.